By Jack Toronto The Afro News Vancouver Sign on the wall of the clinic where my blood samples are taken: “I plan on living forever. So far, so good.” North Americans live in a “death-denying society…we search for immortality – in diets, exercise programs, plastic surgery to keep us looking youthful, treatments to cure incurable
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Ghana Memories
Ghana Memories, Life and Death
on December 5th, 2009
Ghana Memories, Abandoned Tractors
on October 1st, 2009
Rusted yellow Czechoslovakian tractors littered the countryside in the aftermath of the February 1966 coup that toppled Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s leader since independence from Britain in 1957. Relics of Nkrumah’s alignment with Soviet block countries, they became disabled orphans for lack of replacement parts when the National Liberation Council turned to the west for
Africa Now, Is There Any Hope?
Africa Now, Is There Any Hope? Jack Toronto , Sometimes I ask myself, “Self, should I ever have started to share my Ghana memories” Self replies, “Sure! Why wouldn’t you want to relive the heady days of youth in a foreign culture and share your adventures with those unlucky people who weren’t there? Students keen